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Ku Klux

Ku Klux is the ellipsis of Ku Klux Klan.

Meaning of Ku Klux Klan

Proper noun

the Ku Klux Klan

  1. An American white supremacist secret society and terrorist organization.
    • The very suspicion of seditious utterances against the government, suspected complicity in the Ku Klux Klan, or complaint by a negro that a white man had been uppity to him were enough to land a citizen in jail.1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, published June 1944, →OCLC, part IV, page 653

Noun

Ku Klux (plural Ku Kluxes)

  1. A member of the Ku Klux Klan.
    • […] there was Billy McKinney, I don't know whether he was a Ku Klux or not; I suppose the reason why I did not say I would not join the Ku Klux was because I hadn't sense enough.1872, United States. Circuit Court (4th Circuit), Benn Pitman, Louis Freeland Post, Proceedings in the Ku Klux Trials at Columbia, S.C. (page 775)

Forms of Ku Klux

pluralKu Kluxes

Questions about Ku Klux

What does Ku Klux mean?
Ku Klux means a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
What is Ku Klux the ellipsis of?
Ku Klux is the ellipsis of Ku Klux Klan.
What part of speech is Ku Klux?
Ku Klux is a noun.
What is the plural of Ku Klux?
The plural of Ku Klux is Ku Kluxes.

Words near Ku Klux in the dictionary

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  7. Ku Klux Klan
  8. Ku Klux Klanism
  9. Ku Klux Klanner
  10. Ku Klux Klanners
  11. Ku Kluxer

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